The problem I find is that most people listen to Meshuggah expecting "riffs", when it's closer to post-rock and ambient music than anything "metal". It's all about how 3 or 4 patterns can make something so much more hypnotic and atmospheric than any BTBAM worship tech death.

But you know this already, so I'll just wish you good luck and a great show. They really are crushing live. Break The Bones Whose Sinews Gave it Motion maybe one of their most boring studio tracks, but live it damned near tore my face off.

The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction......that somehow...somewhere......all of this makes sense!That's what cracks me up each time!

Periphery really are one of the tightest bands I've ever seen live, so them and Meshuggah will go perfectly together (even if the crowd might end up fighting itself out of pure spite), and Devin... is... well, Devin. Expect hugeness.

The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction......that somehow...somewhere......all of this makes sense!That's what cracks me up each time!

Seen him twice now, and as much as I LOVE Devin, and as much as the show ruled... Does the overuse of his samples feel kinda weird to you? Like, just really odd seeing a five piece band on stage, and knowing that there's probably more music being played by laptops than the dudes with instruments in their hands...

The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction......that somehow...somewhere......all of this makes sense!That's what cracks me up each time!

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I'd rather him with than without, it just bugs me a tiny bit. Especially when they're playing something reasonably simple, and all of the "interesting" stuff is actually just the keyboards or samples. Devin and co just playing really simple stuff while the laptop handles the parts everyone came here for

Nowhere near as bad as TesseracT's guitarists both playing the exact same parts while a tape played all of the clean melodies, I'll admit.

The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction......that somehow...somewhere......all of this makes sense!That's what cracks me up each time!